What in the Shibal Podcast

On Episode 13 of Season 2, Ed goes on a 4th date with the same woman but Ed feels guilty because his one close female friend is getting a lot of f-boys that she is matching with. Ed takes his date to the DS Night Market in Chinatown Los Angeles. Did Ed's date listen to the podcast? Date also isn't really into food which is nerve wracking because food is Ed's whole personality. Ed's...

Susie has had a dramatic week with a skunk incident that was courtesy of Ms Jilly in the backyard and inside the house. Ed's had a tough week with having the flu for the second time in his life. Ed was invited by Yong Yang's twin brother - Yin Yang to join the Yong Yang Justice League to not only bring justice to the case of Yong Yang who was killed by the LAPD while having a mental health...

On Season 2 Episode 11 is a pre-recorded episode, there is a Back to the Future musical.  Soogia and Ed play Life Story Interview Kit again including: How is today's society different from when you were a child? Tell me about your first car. What were your favorite childhood games or toys? Did you date as a teenager? What are your favorite memories with your children? Most memorable moments fr...

Season 2 Episode 10 is pre-recorded from the week prior but is packed full of AITA! But first Suk Min Choi (not Alex Kim) gets arrested for shooting fireworks at a Lamborghini from a helicopter in the desert. A woman sets up GoFundMes to help pay for her bills and living expenses and is now having to show proof of how she actually used the money.  A white woman says in the N word and went viral an...

On Season 2, Episode 9, Susie's kids have one more week of school before summer vacation starts. Ed is going on a his first date from the dating apps this Saturday... Susie wants to come along. Ed says he likes "crazy" but has a hard time verbalizing what that means to Susie.... so Ed tries to explain it this je ne sais quoi factor to Susie.... but we won't find out how it went f...

S 2 Ep 8 starts with Susie throwing out all the kimchi she made. Ed wishes he had a kimchi fridge. Ed had a busy weekend video chatting with someone from the dating apps and had a busy weekend. Korean man starts a Tik Tok cult. Woman on Tik Tok doesn't want to return her shopping cart.  AITA include: AITA for not thinking I'm a Koreaboo. AITA for telling my Asian friend that she is fetishi...

S 2 Ep 7 begins with a reminiscing of the AAPI Joy episode and the live recording and nervous levels and having a live audience.  Susie does a segment on MSNBC with Katie Phang Live.  Ed guest podcasted with Radio Korea on their Koreatown Social Club podcast.  There is an upcoming memorial gathering for Yong Yang in front of Radio Korea on Sunday 6/1 in front of Radio Korea in LA. Ed tells Susie a...

S2 Ep 6 is our first Live Episode from the Los Angeles Central Public Library in Downtown Los Angeles recorded in front of a live audience on May 18, 2024. Joanna Fabicon of the LA Library introduces Susie and Ed.  Susie and Ed talk about who they are and why they started TikTok as well as the podcast including normalizing the Asian experience and building a community.  Both Susie and Ed grew up t...

On Season 2 Ep 5, Susie forgets about recording the podcast until her daughter tells her that Ed and Ron are there.  Ed is breaking his rule of wearing Crocs out of the house because of a gout flareup. Susie finds out and shares that there are different subcategories of feet and Ed had a book dropped on his toe when he was younger.  Susie and Ed make content to help families in Gaza and the effect...

On Ep 4 of S2 we missed a week for Mental Health for Susie.  May is AANHPI Heritage Month and Mental Health Awareness Month.  Susie has been feeling so much pressure with being asked to do so much that she hasn't been able to do anything because she feels she is letting people down and couldn't get out of bed.  Archie gets neutered and in is in a cone for a couple more days.  Susie has a f...

On Ep 3 of Season 2, Archie pees all over Ed's bed and Ed's dryer breaks down the same day so he has to get creative in drying his sheets. Susie also has a funny dog story involving a possum and crows.  Ed also has a story involving a possum. Susie's older daughter is running an experiment for the science fair answering if you can raise your spice tolerance, while her younger daughter...

Ep 2 of Season 2 starts with Susie being exhausted but different reason than other more normal times... Susie woke up sitting straight up at 90 degrees.  Ed had a non-eventful week but also has a neighbor whose rabbits keep getting out of their house and yard and got a new designer dog that they named Soju.  Ed watched She-Devil and can't believe some of the actors in the movie. Ed and Susie a...

Back from a short unannounced 2 week break with Season 2 of What in the Shibal! Starting with Susie's daughters coming back from a huge volleyball tournament in Las Vegas followed up by Spring Break with the family in Chicago. Ed gets his mouth numb eating Mala Tteokbokki. Ed gets hit by a car. And Ed tries and loves raw marinated crabs. Susie on the other hand runs into one of her best friend...

Susie and Ed play a game to get to know each other better on Ep 54. But first, Archie loses a tooth on the podcast.  Susie reminisces about one of her daughters losing their tooth and Susie having to replace the tooth.  This episode was recorded a week in advance due to scheduling so Susie and Ed try to predict the future.  Susie and Ed play Life Stories and answer the following questions: What wa...

On Ep 53, Ed took Archie to the park for the first time but never to a dog park... and accidentally traumatized Archie with a hoodie. While, Susie hasn't stopped making her Go-To-Jang sauce and has been shifting production to a co-packer.  Susie has a fan that offered to redesign her sauce labels... and should be available on Tik Tok Shop and online soon. Speaking of which, Tik Tok Shop, as an...

Ep 52 begins with Archie getting traumatized right before filming began. And Ed covered more missing kids the past week and played video games to take his mind off it. Ed eats pork gukbap for the first time and barley rice bibimbap type dish from Borit Gogae in Koreatown Los Angeles and spills the tea on if their pork ribs are better than Ham Ji Park. Benny Blanco reviews Jollibee and is very disr...

Ep 51 happened a week later because Susie had the Rona and even though she was not feeling well at all, Susie at least didn't lose her appetite but needed more food for her body to fight it off... while watching Who TF Did I Marry? While Ed watched "One Day". And he made a video about a missing girl who was then found because of the power of social media. Ed also helped friend film t...

This is our 50th Episode!!! and coincidentally Lunar New Year/Seollal/Spring Festival/Chūnjié/Tết so we decided to eat a FEAST of some of the Asian cuisines of those that celebrate the New Year holiday. But first, Ed took a couple of days off this week but watched the Super Bowl until he fell asleep. Susie and Ed talk about the Halftime show with Usher, Luda, Lil Jon, and Alicia Keys.... which the...

Ed learns about Narwhals on Ep 49. And the Pineapple Express brings a lot of rain to the LA area the past week and Susie sets the record straight on how rain affects Los Angeles. But seriously, LA is not designed for extreme rain. Don't get Susie started on when LA transplants parody people who live in LA. The dogs don't like to go out in the rain and Ed reminisces a time when he was the o...

Ep 48 has a new segment called "Questions for Asian People from Non-Asian People"... but first Susie helps some skateboarding teens in front of her house who got injured. And Susie's daughter has a close encounter with a stranger at the mall.  Ed ate at the Dragon Korean Restaurant in Koreatown Los Angeles before they closed after 40 years in business and being a core memory place fo...

Ep 47 starts with Susie's kids' sports schedules that has become more complex as her husband is now a coach for their younger daughter's basketball team.  Susie is very particular about her alarm clock times. Susie's dad thought being told that Susie was a "busy body" during parent-teacher conferences was a compliment. Ed got a mild case of gout from not being able to sto...

Ep 46 is another great episode of Am I The AHole (AITA).  But first, Susie is a volleyball mom now and her life revolves around her kids' volleyball schedules - and had another tournament over the weekend.  Ed had his nephew's 9th birthday and he packaged the present to look like something else - a video game to look like a stuffed bunny.  Beef took home 7 Emmys this year as well as histor...

Ep 45 is the first episode of 2024 and Susie is happy to get back to routine... esp after the Holiday Travel Disaster of 2023 - Susie goes to the Midwest with her daughters and sister's family to visit her older sister and her family... but Susie accidentally brings with her the Norovirus then has a flight delayed on the way home due to the antics of one passenger... only to realize that they...

Ep 44 is a What in the Shibal New Years! First we have Archie on the Boba Squishmallow again and it is very distracting! Huey however has hurt his leg and has panic attacks on top of it. Susie and Ed then talk about vet spending and getting 2nd and 3rd opinions. Ed "twists" his foot in his sleep 3x before finding out he has gout from the 4th doctor.  Susie hasn't stayed up for New Ye...

Ep 43 is a Holiday episode that ends in a lot of sweat. But first Ed's time has been completely commandeered by 9 week old Archie who was accidentally yeeted off the bed in the middle of the night but is completely fine... and Ed is having to adjust to having a smaller tiny dog. Susie's daughters are out of school for the next 3 weeks and has already been super busy getting ready for the h...